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To: Boplicity who wrote (10825)	6/8/1999 9:06:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29970

Greg, for all practical purposes, the 50 home splits will allow greater bandwidth for the fifty homes in the existing head end channel slot(s) being served by the present system. But it doesn't do anything to add more slots for other ISPs. It's a box thing. It merely reduces the level of congestion for existing users of the original system. It doesn't add to the lane count in and out of the head end, and to the routers in the WAN. Of course, this could be seen to facilitate multiple ISPs operating over the same channel, but for some reason I don't think that this would work very well where the larger players were concerned. It's physically possible, but adminstratively prohibitive, and would get very tight over time. Unless the parties could reach some extraordinary terms. But even sharing the same channel would only be suitable for basic 'net access, surfing, email, etc. The moment either ISP wanted to put in messaging or security enhancements, or invoke multimedia capabilities such as those which DOCSIS will permit, there would be problems with coexisting, immediately. To do it right, the engineers would have to go back to the drawing boards on this one. The MSOs never seriously considered this to be a possibility, and if they did consider it at one time, then they certainly put in enough inhibitors to avoid having to deal with it for a while. Regards, Frank Coluccio